Apparatus for drawim gores



(No Modl.)

W. J. HINPHY.

APPARATU$ FOR DRAWING OORKS.

N0. 402;.245. Patented Apr. 30, 1 889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WVILLIAM J. HINPHY, OF MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA.

. APPARATUS FOR DRAWING CORKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 402,245, dated April 30, 1889, Application filed July 9, 1888. Serial No. 279,471. (No model.) Patented in Canada July 17, 1888, No. 29,502.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM JOHN HIN- PHY, of the city of Montreal, in the district of Montreal and Province of Quebec, Canada, have invented certain new and useful In provements in Apparatus for Drawing Corks, (for which Letters Patent have been granted to me in Canada, July 17, 1888, No. 29,502,) and I dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

This invention relates to apparatus secured usually to the wall or counter of a bar, and operating to draw the cork from a bottle held beneath it.

The object of my invention is to avoid the necessity of the hand turning for introducing the screw into the cork: to provide means whereby a single down and an up movement of a leveriwill draw the cork and remove it from the screw; to provide a steadying-guide for the screw when being driven into the cork, and, further; to furnish means for supporting the bottle independently of the hand, so as to avoid any dangerincurred by the accidental breaking of a bottle.

"My apparatus consists of a vertical sleeve with a rack formed on it and encircling a spindle carrying the corkscrew, and having a helical groove out therein, a' collar or nut through which such spindle works, provided with a helix-thread intermcshing with a helical groove on the spindle and certain pawl-and-ratchet mechanism (operated from a vertical sleeve) working in connection with such collar, a geared segment intermeshing with the rack on the vertical sleeve, and a lever for operating such segment, all these being carried in suitable bearings formed in a frame to be secured to the wall or counter. A cork-receiving chamber with a flared open bottom, into which the head of the bottle fits while the cork is being drawn, also forms a part of such frame, and in this cork-receiving chamber is arranged to slide up and down a guide, acting to steady the corkscrew while being driven into the cork, and also to hold the latter, after being drawn, whileithe screw is being turned out of it.

The loose collar or nut above referred to is the device for turning the corkscrew automatically. It is held in its bearings by means of a ratchet on each of its ends, and by means of the pawl mechanism working in connection with these ratchets it is held stationary or allowed to revolve. If the nut be held stationary and the screwed spindle be drawn down through it, it (the spindle) will be caused to revolve'in a right-hand spiral direction by means of the helix-thread on the nut, and if the nut be left free to revolve in its bearings and the screwed spindle be drawn up against such a frictional resistance as would be furnished by the connection of the corkscrew with the cork, the spindle will be held by such resistance from revolving, and

the collar, then loose and meeting with no resistance in its bearings, will of course revolve on the spindle until checked.

It is desired, first, to lower the corkscrew, while being revolved in a right-hand direction, into the cork, then secure an upward pull without any revolution, and, lastly, to turn the corkscrew out of the cork, when drawn, by a left-hand revolution, which is all accomplished in my apparatus by single down and up strokes of the lever.

The screw-guide and cork-holder, arranged to slide in the cork-receiving chamber, is perforated to guide the screw and the sleeve following it in its downward course, so that the former will not, as is the case with apparatus not provided with like means, wabble or by any chance work out of a central line to the edge of the cork and be'broken or bent. The holder is provided with teeth on its bottom edge, against which the cork is drawn, and when the corkscrew is caused to turn out of the cork, the latter is held by the teeth against turning, and so disengaged.

The means for supporting the bottle independently of the hand consists of a sliding platform, on which the bottle is placed,which can be operated by the knee and raised from a low to a high point.

For full comprehension, however, of the invention reference must be had to the an nexed drawings, in which-- Figure 1 is a front view of the machine, with parts in normal position; Fig. 2, a side view ofvsame, partly broken away, showing the sliding platform-support in connection therewith and a bottle in position. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of collar or nut for securing the automatic turning of the corkscrew;

Fig. -i,a perspective view of same, and pawls working in connection with the ratchets thereof. Fig. 5 is adetail perspective view of the screw-guide and cork-holder arranged in cork-receiving chamber, and Fig. 6 a front perspective view of the sliding platformsupport.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

A is the frame, secured to the wall, counter, or other place, formed with bearings a a, a, and a and having the cork-receiving chamber A, formed by the downwardly-projccting arms a a carrying the flared open bottom a situated at its lowest extremity.

B is the vertical sleeve, working vertically in the bearings a (1, having a rack on its inner face, and operated by the geared segment 0, mounted on lever-spindle 0, carried in bearing a, 0 being the lever.

D is the spindle which sleeve B encircles, the two being held together, as regards vertical movement, by means of collars (Z (1, secured to spindle D at each end of the sleeve. The cork-screw D is secured in and projects from the lower end of spindle D, and a helical groove D is cut on that portion of the spindle which extends upward from collar (1. The pitch of the helical groove and the corkscrew must be the same, so that their travel will correspond.

Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view of the vertical collar or nut F situated in bearing (t E E are the ratchets, formed one at each end of same and of greater diameter. 6 is the thread on the inside of the collar, to correspond with and work in groove D on spindle D, which passes through the collar. The ratchets E E, as shown, are in opposite or right and left hand order, so that the pawls F I, engaging therein, will act to hold the collar stationary at the necessary periods in the operation, as will be more fully described. The pawls are pivoted 011 spindle F, carried in extensions from bearing a and engage, respectively, with the ratchets E E the ends of a spring, f, coiled around said spindle, serving to keep them in place. The pawl F has a tail, f projecting from its hub, intended to be operated upon so as to disengage the pawl from the ratchet and hold it disengaged for a certain time. This operation is performed by the vertical arm B, projecting from sleeve B and having detent or cut-off portion B (shown in Fig. 1,) forming about the upper half of its length. B is a projection from the frame, serving as a guide to B.

G is the corkscrew-steadying guide and corkholder. It is about half the length of the cork-receiving chamber A, and formed of two rings, 9 9, connected by side pieces, The lower ring has a rim, g, provided with teeth 9 which projects down through the open bottom a of chamber A to the cork in the bottle and rests on it. The two rings serve as guides for the screw and the sleeve following it, and prevent any chance of its getting out of the center. Eyes G l are formed on each of the rings to fit the rods lI, secured. in the frame, so as to guide it in its movement in the chamber when the cork is drawn.

The support for the bottle is formed of a platform, J, of any desired configuration, sliding on a bracket, J, (secured to the wall the proper distance below the machine,) the meeting surfaces being at an angle of forty-five degrees, and one provided with a feather and the other agroove to fit each other, any meanssuch as the fingers j and pins j -for holding them together when at their lowest pointbeing provided. v

The operation of the apparatus is as follows: A bottle is placed on platform J while at its lowest point, (shown by dotted lines,) and the platform is then elevated by the knee, if desired, so as to place the bottle in the position shown, with its head bearing in the flaring mouth a of chamber A. By turning down lever C for the half-circle the sleeve B is lowered and with it spindle D, which is also caused to revolve in a right hand direction during the whole of its downward movement by its passage through the collar or nut E, which remains stationary, being held against revolving in a left-hand direction, as would be the case if it were free, by pawl 'F, engaging ratchet E. At the end of the down ward stroke of the lever the corkscrew D is firmly inserted in the cork and the part 1 of the detent portion B of arm B (drawn down with the sleeve B) is opposite to and pressing outward the tail f of pawl F so as to disengage the pawl from ratchet E and leave it, with nut E, free to rotate in a right-hand direction, as indicated by the arrow. The length of the detent B from the point 1 to the point 2, where the pawl F is to be released, corresponds with the distance the cork has to be drawn, so that by turning the lever 0 up it will raise sleeve B and spindle D, which latter, as the friction between the corkscrew D and the cork is greater than that between 001- lar E and its bearing, will not revolve, but by its upward passage through such collar cause it to rotate in a right hand direction until the point 2 of the detent passes the tail of pawl F, thus allowing its engagement with ratchet E and arresting further movement of the collar. By the time this occurs the cork has of course been drawn from the bottle and is in the lower half of the chamber A, with the screw-guide and cork-holder above it and filling the upper half of the chamber. The spindle D during the remainder of its upward movement must, in order to relieve the screw D of the cork, be turned in a left-hand direction, and. as the collar E is now held stationary it will, by its upward passage through the same, be caused to revolve that way, so that the cork, being held firmly against turning by the teeth on the bottom of the corkholder,is finally left free to be knocked from its position in the chamber.

Vhat I claim is as follows:

1. Inconibination, a nut held in fixed bearings to have rotary movement therein, a pawl for controlling the movement of said nut, a threaded spindle passing through the nut and adapted to rotate therein and reciprocate through the same, and a releasing-arm moving With the spindle and in line with the pawl, whereby it acts upon the'pawl and releases the nut, so that it may revolve, and thus allow the spindle to move longitudinally Without rotating, substantially as described.

2. In an apparatus for drawing corks, the combination, with a sleeve carried in bearings and movable in either direction vertically, and a spindle Within such. sleeve and moving vertically with it, having a helical f groove cut on aportion of its length, and means for moving the sleeve, of a nut carried loosely in suitable bearings, encircling said spindle,

J. HINPHY.

Witnesses: I

WM. P. MCFEAT, OWEN W. EVANS. 

